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In the 1990s, Star Wars comics artist Chris Fenoglio was raised in El Sobrante. [29] Other notable residents include artist's model Flo Allen, who died while living in El Sobrante. [30] As well as pioneering hypertext author Judy Malloy who lived in El Sobrante from 1995 [31] to 2013, [32] [33] and wrote much of her work while living there.
El Sobrante (pronounced [el soˈβɾante]; Spanish for 'The Leftovers', 'The Surplus', 'The Remaining Land') is a census-designated place in Riverside County, California. [2] El Sobrante sits at an elevation of 1,283 feet (391 m). The 2010 United States census reported El Sobrante's population was 12,723.
Map of Latin America and the Caribbean. The term Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC [1]) is an English-language acronym referring to the Latin American and the Caribbean region. The term LAC covers an extensive region, extending from The Bahamas and Mexico to Argentina and Chile.
Rancho El Sobrante was a 20,565-acre (83.22 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Contra Costa County, California given in 1841 by Governor Juan Alvarado to Juan Jose Castro and Victor Castro. [1] The name refers to a "surplus" in Spanish—the grant's boundaries were determined by the boundaries of the surrounding grants: San Antonio, San ...
Richmond is a city in western Contra Costa County, California, United States.The city was incorporated on August 3, 1905, and has a city council. [14] Located in the San Francisco Bay Area's East Bay region, Richmond borders San Pablo, Albany, El Cerrito and Pinole in addition to the unincorporated communities of North Richmond, Hasford Heights, Kensington, El Sobrante, Bayview-Montalvin Manor ...
Pittsburg (formerly Black Diamond, New York Landing and New York of the Pacific) [8] is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States.It is an industrial suburb located on the southern shore of the Suisun Bay in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, and is part of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta area, the Eastern Contra Costa County area, and the San Francisco ...
María del Rosario Estudillo de Aguirre, a member of the Estudillo family of California and wife of José Antonio Aguirre, was granted Rancho San Jacinto Sobrante in 1846. Rancho San Jacinto Sobrante was a 48,847-acre (197.68 km 2 ) Mexican land grant in present-day Riverside County, California given in 1846 by Governor Pío Pico to María del ...
The map encompasses the eastern coast of North America, the entire Central and South America and parts of the western coasts of Europe and Africa. Americae Sive Quartae Orbis Partis Nova Et Exactissima Descriptio is the earliest scale wall map of the New World and the first to use the name "California". [1]